Perhaps because our eyes are directed outwards, we human beings usually look to our environment as the source of our happiness or unhappiness...
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We Live in Two Worlds
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Lost and Found
I was 36 years old, flat broke, two months behind with the rent, I couldn’t get a job to save my life, and Welfare (Social Security) had turned me down...
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Do The Work
Where there is resolution, there will also be resistance.
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A Ship to Cross The Sea of Suffering
An inner calm is essential in order to realise our dreams. But calmness and I were not very well acquainted.
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It Will Change
In the midst of the horror and the heartbreak in Ukraine, something very good is happening...
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Me Too
When I arrived in Montreal in 1974 I believed that my new country would treat me well. Less than a month later, I found out otherwise. (Please don't read this poem if you are easily triggered.)
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Bring Back The F Word!
How do you bear with emotional pain in a way that nourishes and nurtures your inner growth?
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Weapons of Mass Distraction
Do you ever feel that Life is lining you up for something? Stacking the deck for, or against, you? I do!
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The True Meaning of Expansion
“The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of …
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Are You Haunted by Your Past?
We breathe a kind of radioactive half-life into our past experiences by re-membering them, and reliving how awful they were, effectively creating zombie memories, phantom memories, which we use to haunt and frighten ourselves.